MidiCond is, in a nutshell, a music soft­ware to in­flu­ence the tim­ing of MIDI music files in de­tail. For ex­ample, it is used to ac­company live music. Pot­ential users are all who make or use music!MidiCond runs under Windows, Mac­OS, Linux etc. and costs only € 10,- (see News).

Attention: There is only one single way to acquire a valid MidiCond license, as described on the pageDemo, License!

The name com­ponent Cond is short for Latin con­duco, trans­lating bring to­gether (… the entire musical world with com­puters) or conduct.

MidiCond allows you to play any piece of music pre­sent as a standard MIDI file, adding tempo fluctu­a­tions, rubati and grooves pre­cisely as you desire, ex­ecuted in “real time”. You can save the re­sults as new MIDI files.

Operating a key or a switch in MidiCond works as a con­ducting stoke: A definite metric posi­tion is in­stant­ly en­forced, e.g. the third beat of the second bar. For batons we use MIDI key­boards (manual or pedal), com­puter key­boards, and switches, com­bined freely.

The vari­ous keys allow you to con­duct portions of vary­ing metric dura­tion (“time values”), just as a con­ductor may switch between conducting, say, minims and six­teenth notes, but much more flex­ibly and with­out any risk of being mis­under­stood. You can choose free­ly, which key you want to use for which time value (MidiCond of course sup­plying a pre-setting). That value is to be under­stood as the metric distance to the next key­stroke. More pre­cise ex­plana­tions can be read in the large help texts, which are also included in the demo version and serve as a tutorial.

What can I use MidiCond for?

MidiCond has many different use cases, which can roughly be classified as follows:

Rehearsing for soloists, ensemble members, and ensembles

Performing in an ensemble, as an accompanist, or solo

Saving the data of a conducting session as a new standard MIDI file, to listen to or continue to work with.

Whenever you can spare a hand (or even a foot), you may accompany yourself and others! Read more on the page Features.

Computer literacy on a most elementary level will suffice. Musical competence is not a pre­requesite either, but it will, existing at whatever degree (including professional conducting), be advanced and rewarded by MidiCond.